Due to the great response from my first Flip Fluids tutorial, we are very excited to announce a free training series on the Flip Fluids Add-on for Blender. If you’re a 3D generalist (like me), specialize in other 3D animation aspects, are a motion graphics designer, or a VFX artist — I recommend learning this add-on. It is a fully featured and affordable fluid dynamic plugin for Blender. Even if you primarily use other 3D applications, you can easily simulate and export your

For those of you who have been following along with the release of Brandon's first series of free After Effects tools development - this final tutorial in this series is released - meet Text Lasso. Text Lasso is a free After Effects tool that allows you to speed up and automate your workflow by pulling text from another layer. It's dynamic - so changing the original text will update the new text layers you've created. Super cool. This is the last tool in the series of three.

Check out this Commercial Production breakdown for a spot Pixel Planet Studios did for a local community bank. Director, Anthony Carabotta, and Director of Photography, John Stanchina, walk us through a comprehensive overview of lights, crew and equipment scene by scene. This was particularly interesting for me, as I was not yet a twinkle in the Pixel Planet eye. I've been a fan of the the full commercial video and even though the team has told me certain things that they d